Reportage by Paula Pröve, cover illustration Susanne Gold It started as a project for the university, the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. The task: integrate a natural fibre into any material. That …
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Bioplastics from Mexico: Changing the world with agave fibres.
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The long waves of innovations
Inventions resemble the waves of the sea One idea triggers another. This is how the Russian socialist and revolutionary Nikolai Kondratjew found out at the beginning of the 20th century. Since he applied this principle …
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Flying – Utopia and the curse of man
Subjected to the weight of the body, man can feel no greater longing than when he sees the migration of birds in the sky setting out for unreachable distances. Air travel to distant countries and …
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Utopias and innovations between hope and horror
In 1900, X-rays were a spectacular new technology. It enabled a fantasy from the land of utopias: Suddenly it was possible to make the previously invisible visible. This innovation was so extraordinary and fascinating that …
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Open Innovation – Many minds. Many ideas.
Solutions to the problems of the world – Opening up research Climate change, seas full of waste, dwindling energy sources, bee deaths, micropollutants in drinking water – our world is full of questions for which …
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Strange birds – great founders
There seems to be a curious consensus among the founders of successful companies: Almost all of them are weird tinkerers who have a “little something on the waffle”. It is unclear whether they were already …
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The perfect invention
They don’t exist: The ingenious inventor and the one inspiring idea If you asked a child who invented the chocolate cake, they would answer “mom” without a doubt. How could it know how many heads …